How to Eat Healthy at Bob Evans
When you think about a Bob Evans Restaurant, you might think of yummy sausage, bacon and big fluffy biscuits with gravy. Bob Evans is known world-wide for their sausage but it's packed with fat, calories and sodium. There are other options on the menu that are healthier alternatives.
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Instructions
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Breakfast
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Choose a Bob Evans' breakfast that is low in calories and fat. Try the oatmeal at 171 calories and 3 fat grams or a plain English muffin at 129 calories and less than 2 fat grams.
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Add the fruit cup for an additional 150 calories and less than 1 fat gram. This will give you some essential vitamins and fiber.
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Select the three scrambled egg breakfast with Egg Beater substitutes if you desire more protein for breakfast. It's only 172 calories with 12 fat grams and it reduces the cholesterol count from 722 mg to less than 5 mg by using the egg substitutes.
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Pass up the omelets and fancy hotcakes. The Carmel Pecan Banana Stacked and Stuffed Hotcakes boast more than 1,500 calories, 77 fat grams and a whopping 2,250 mg of sodium. The Farmers Market Omelet containing ham, sausage, eggs and bacon has more than 900 calories and 73 fat grams.
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Pass up the Egg Beater omelets as well. Ordering an omelet with Egg Beaters is not a healthy alternative. By the time they add the cheese and margarine, the calorie, fat and sodium counts rival the real egg omelets.
Lunch
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Skip the salads at Bob Evans. You might think they are the healthy choice but surprisingly they are packed with calories, fat and sodium. The Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad has 1,100 calories, 64 fat grams and more than 3000 mg of sodium.
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Order a plain grilled chicken sandwich for one of the healthiest lunch choices. It has 398 calories, 15 fat grams and 944 mg of sodium. Another choice is half of the chicken salad sandwich which sports 331 calories, 19 fat grams and 643 mg of sodium.
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Pair the half-sandwich with a cup of vegetable beef soup with 200 calories, 3 fat grams and 371 mg of sodium.
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Choose a plain hamburger patty if you are craving beef. It has 321 calories, 28 fat grams and 389 mg of sodium. Add the margarine-saturated bun and the calories increase to 539; the fat grams rise to 32; and the sodium shoots to 755 mg.
Dinner
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Select the plain salmon for dinner with 280 calories, 13 fat grams and 100 mg of sodium. Add a Wildfire Sauce for taste and only add 100 calories and 150 mg of sodium.
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Choose the Slow Roasted Turkey dinner and receive 115 calories, 4 fat grams and 674 mg of sodium. Steer clear of the Turkey and Dressing dinner with 550 calories, 28 fat grams and more than 2300 mg of sodium.
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Grab the sirloin steak if you love beef. It has 400 calories, 27 fat grams and 637 mg of sodium.
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Stay away from all of Bob Evans' stir fry dinners. The stir-fry sauces add tons of unwanted calories, fat and sodium. Stick to meat dishes without sauces or cheese toppings.
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Steer away from pasta dinners, too. The Garden Vegetable Alfredo with Salmon has 887 calories, 52 fat grams and a heart-stopping 2400 mg of sodium.
Side Dishes and Dessert
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Try out the broccoli or apple sauce as your side item. These have less than 85 calories a serving and very few fat grams. Cottage cheese with 114 calories and 4 fat grams is a decent choice as is the plain side salad with 137 calories.
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Stay away from the green beans; they amazingly are packed with 865 mg of sodium. The grilled mushrooms are another no-no with more than 1000 mg of sodium.
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Skip the desserts at Bob Evans unless you like plain vanilla ice cream. One scoop has 115 calories and 6 fat grams. The other dessert choices boast 500 or more calories each. The Reese's Sundae contains more than 800 calories and 40 fat grams.
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Tips & Warnings
If you are really craving a salad, choose the Heritage Chef Salad with 450 calories, 23 fat grams and 1,500 mg of sodium. Ask for the salad dressing on the side and pour it on yourself. Only use a small amount in order to shave calories and fat grams.
